Cobb-Douglas Production Function: The Case of a Converging Economy [PDF]
The Cobb-Douglas production function is often used to analyse the supply-side performance and measurement of a country’s productive potential. This functional form, however, includes the assumption of a constant share of labor in output, which may be too
Dana Hájková, Jaromír Hurník
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Impacts of Labor Taxation with Perfectly and Imperfectly Competitive Domestic Labor Markets under Flexible Outsourcing [PDF]
What are the impacts of labor tax reform on wage setting and employment to keep the relative tax burden per low-skilled and high-skilled workers constant in the case of heterogenous domestic labor markets, i.e.
Erkki Koskela
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Features of the Regional Labor Markets in the Czech Republic [PDF]
Statistika: Statistics and Economy Journal, 2017 We use the Labor Office data for the regions of the Czech Republic to investigate some of the structural features of the respective labor markets. We build our approach on the matching function of the search model of the labor market.
Vít Pošta, Tomáš Hudeček
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Structural and Cyclical Unemployment: What Can Be Derived from the Matching Function? (in English) [PDF]
We explain movements in the U-V (unemployment and vacancy) space – that is, the relation-ship between stocks of unemployment and job vacancies, known as the Beveridge curve – in the Czech Republic during 1995–2004.
Daniel Münich, Kamil Galušèák
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The Lost Decade in the Japanese Labor Market : Labor’s share and Okun’s Law [PDF]
The purpose of this study is to reexamine two empirical regularities in the Japanese labor market : the constant labor share and Okun's law. The former law relates to the price of labor in the labor market while the latter is a quantity law; they ...
Shigeru Wakita
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Division of labor in honeybees: form, function, and proximate mechanisms
Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 2009 Honeybees exhibit two patterns of organization of work. In the spring and summer, division of labor is used to maximize growth rate and resource accumulation, while during the winter, worker survivorship through the poor season is paramount, and bees ...
Brian R Johnson
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Progress in Implementing Capacity-Building Provisions under the Labor Chapter of the Dominican Republic – Central America – United States Free Trade Agreement [PDF]
, 2009 [Excerpt] Section 403(a) of the CAFTA-DR Implementation Act includes a reporting requirement on labor issues related to the CAFTA-DR. Specifically, that section requires the President to submit a biennial report to Congress on the progress made by the ...
U. S. Department of Labor
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Nonparametric estimation of a primary care production function in urban Brazil
Health Economics Review, 2020 Background The Brazilian public health system is one of the largest health systems in the world, with a mandate to deliver medical care to more than 200 million Brazilians. The objective of this study is to estimate a production function for primary care
Bruno Wichmann, Roberta Wichmann
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The different consumption functions of products and product differentiation [PDF]
This paper develops a monopolistic competition model to study the characteristics of products, such as quality improvement and product diversity (function-specialization and individualization), and the division of labor in production.
Waka Cheung, Yew-Kwang Ng
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Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology, 2010 BackgroundThe objective of this study was to quantify the nuclear localization and DNA binding activity of p65, the major transactivating nuclear factor-kappa B (NF-kappaB) subunit, in full-thickness fetal membranes (FM) and myometrium in the absence or ...
Sonali Vora +8 more
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